The activeCommandToolbarButton creates a button in a toolbar. It is normally used inside of a <af:toolbar> component. activeCommandToolbarButtons are not rendered on printable pages. Due to performance overhead compared to <af:commandToolbarButton>, you should only use this component if you plan to support changing the visible attribute through active data, otherwise you should use the <af:commandToolbarButton> component.

Events

Event delivered when the "action" of the component has been invoked; for example, by clicking on a button. The action may result in page navigation.

org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.event.ReturnEvent

Apply Request Values

Event delivered when the dialog has completed successfully.

org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.event.LaunchEvent

Invoke Application,
Apply Request Values

Event delivered to prompt the command to launch a dialog.

org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.event.AttributeChangeEvent

Invoke Application,
Apply Request Values

Event delivered to describe an attribute change. Attribute change events are not delivered for any programmatic change to a property. They are only delivered when a renderer changes a property without the application's specific request. An example of an attribute change events might include the width of a column that supported client-side resizing.

Supported Facets

Name

Description

popup

The popup displayed by this toolbar button.

Attributes

Name

Type

Supports EL?

Description

accessKey

char

Yes

character used to gain quick access to this item. For accessibility reasons, this functionality is not supported in screen reader mode.

If the same access key appears in multiple locations in the same page of output, the rendering user agent will cycle among the elements accessed by the similar keys. Note that user agents are inconsistent about dealing with two links having same access key, and so the cycling behavior is dependent on what the user agent provides.

This attribute is sometimes referred to as the "mnemonic".

The character specified by this attribute must exist in the text attribute of this item instance. If it does not, the user will receive no visual indication of the existence of the accessKey. The easiest, and most convenient way to specify both the text and the mnemonic together is to use textAndAccessKey.

Note that the accessKey is triggered by browser-specific and platform-specific modifier keys. It even has browser-specific meaning. For example, Internet Explorer 7.0 will set focus when you press Alt+<accessKey>. Firefox 2.0 on some operating systems you press Alt+Shift+<accessKey>. Firefox 2.0 on other operating systems you press Control+<accessKey>. Refer to your browser's documentation for how it treats accessKey.

action

javax.el.MethodExpression

Yes

a reference to an action method sent by the command component, or the static outcome of an action. If the action starts with "dialog:", useWindow attribute must be set to true.

actionListener

javax.faces.el.MethodBinding

Only EL

a method reference to an action listener

attributeChangeListener

javax.el.MethodExpression

Only EL

a method reference to an attribute change listener. Attribute change events are not delivered for any programmatic change to a property. They are only delivered when a renderer changes a property without the application's specific request. An example of an attribute change events might include the width of a column that supported client-side resizing.

an EL reference that will store the component instance on a bean. This can be used to give programmatic access to a component from a backing bean, or to move creation of the component to a backing bean.

clientComponent

boolean

Yes

whether a client-side component will be generated. A component may be generated whether or not this flag is set, but if client Javascript requires the component object, this must be set to true to guarantee the component's presence. Client component objects that are generated today by default may not be present in the future; setting this flag is the only way to guarantee a component's presence, and clients cannot rely on implicit behavior. However, there is a performance cost to setting this flag, so clients should avoid turning on client components unless absolutely necessary.

customizationId

String

Yes

This attribute is deprecated. The 'id' attribute should be used when applying persistent customizations. This attribute will be removed in the next release.

depressedIcon

String

Yes

The URI of an image to be displayed on the toolbar button when the mouse has pressed the button. This attribute supports the same URI types described for the icon attribute.

As depressedIcon does not allow alternative text to be provided for the image, in order to create an accessible product depressedIcon must only be used when its use is purely decorative.

disabled

boolean

Yes

whether the component is interactive or not. The default value is "false" and component assumes its expected behavior.

disabledIcon

String

Yes

The URI of an image to be displayed on the toolbar button when the button is disabled. This attribute supports the same URI types described for the icon attribute.

As disabledIcon does not allow alternative text to be provided for the image, in order to create an accessible product disabledIcon must only be used when its use is purely decorative.

hoverIcon

String

Yes

the URI of an image to be displayed on the toolbar button when the mouse is hovering over the button. This attribute supports the same URI types described for the icon attribute.

As hoverIcon does not allow alternative text to be provided for the image, in order to create an accessible product hoverIcon must only be used when its use is purely decorative.

icon

String

Yes

The URI of an image to be displayed on the toolbar button. This attribute supports these various types of URIs:

absolute - an absolute path to the image, like "http://oracleimg.com/admin/images/ocom/hp/oralogo_small.gif"

relative - a path located relatively to the source page, like "bullet.jpg"

context relative - a path relatively based on the web application's context root, like "/images/error.png"

server relative - a path relatively based on the web server by application name, like "//adf-richclient-demo-context-root/images/error.png"

As icon does not allow alternative text to be provided for the image, in order to create an accessible product icon must only be used when its use is purely decorative.

id

String

No

the identifier for the component. The identifier must follow a subset of the syntax allowed in HTML:

Must not be a zero-length String.

First character must be an ASCII letter (A-Za-z) or an underscore ('_').

Subsequent characters must be an ASCII letter or digit (A-Za-z0-9), an underscore ('_'), or a dash ('-').

immediate

boolean

Yes

whether data validation - client-side or server-side - will be skipped when events are generated by this component. When immediate is true, the command's action and ActionListeners, including the default ActionListener provided by the JavaServer Faces implementation, will be executed during Apply Request Values phase of the request processing lifecycle, rather than waiting until the Invoke Application phase. Because validation runs during Process Validators (after Apply Request Values, but before Invoke Application), setting immediate to true will skip validation.

inlineStyle

String

Yes

the CSS styles to use for this component. This is intended for basic style changes. The inlineStyle is a set of CSS styles that are applied to the root DOM element of the component. If the inlineStyle's CSS properties do not affect the DOM element you want affected, then you will have to create a skin and use the skinning keys which are meant to target particular DOM elements, like ::label or ::icon-style.

launchListener

javax.el.MethodExpression

Only EL

a method reference to a launch listener

partialSubmit

boolean

Yes

whether the action should be done through a partial page submit or not. The default is true for activeCommandToolBarButton, so be sure to specify partialTriggers if content needs to be updated.

partialTriggers

String[]

Yes

the IDs of the components that should trigger a partial update. This component will listen on the trigger components. If one of the trigger components receives an event that will cause it to update in some way, this component will request to be updated too. Identifiers are relative to the source component (this component), and must account for NamingContainers. If your component is already inside of a naming container, you can use a single colon to start the search from the root of the page, or multiple colons to move up through the NamingContainers - "::" will pop out of the component's naming container (or itself if the component is a naming container) and begin the search from there, ":::" will pop out of two naming containers (including itself if the component is a naming container) and begin the search from there, etc.

rendered

boolean

Yes

whether the component is rendered. When set to false, no output will be delivered for this component (the component will not in any way be rendered, and cannot be made visible on the client). If you want to change a component's rendered attribute from false to true using PPR, set the partialTrigger attribute of its parent component so the parent refreshes and in turn will render this component.

returnListener

javax.el.MethodExpression

Only EL

a method reference to a return listener.This method is used to process dialog returnEvents which are generated as a result of either calling org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.context.RequestContext.returnFromDialog directly or declaratively through the use of a returnActionListener tag.

selected

boolean

Yes

whether the item is selected, for buttons of type radio or check. For radio buttons, there is no server model implemented for handling mutual exclusivity. If a user clicks a new button, the old selection will be unselected. If you programatically call setSelected(true) from code, you must call setSelected(false) on the prior selection as well.

shortDesc

String

Yes

the short description of the component. This text is commonly used by user agents to display tooltip help text, in which case the behavior for the tooltip is controlled by the user agent, e.g. Firefox 2 truncates long tooltips. For form components, the shortDesc is displayed in a note window. For components that support the helpTopicId attribute it is recommended that helpTopicId is used as it is more flexible and is more accessibility-compliant.

styleClass

String

Yes

a CSS style class to use for this component. The style class can be defined in your jspx page or in a skinning CSS file, for example, or you can use one of our public style classes, like 'AFInstructionText'.

text

String

Yes

the text displayed in the toolbar item.

textAndAccessKey

String

Yes

an attribute that will simultaneously set both the "text" and "accessKey" attributes from a single value, using conventional ampersand ('&') notation.

For example, setting this attribute to "T&amp;ext" will set the text to "Text" and the access key to 'e'.

type

String

Yes

Valid Values: default, check, radio

the type of the toolbar button.

unsecure

java.util.Set

Yes

A whitespace separated list of attributes whose values ordinarily can be set only on the server, but need to be settable on the client. Currently, this is supported only for the "disabled" attribute.

useWindow

boolean

Yes

whether processes launched by this command should be launched in a secondary browser dialog window. 'useWindow' requires that the "action" attribute start with "dialog:". Set useWindow to 'false' for the outcome of the action to be targeted to the existing window.

visible

boolean

Yes

the visibility of the component. If it is "false", the component will be hidden on the client. Unlike "rendered", this does not affect the lifecycle on the server - the component may have its bindings executed, etc. - and the visibility of the component can be toggled on and off on the client, or toggled with PPR. When "rendered" is false, the component will not in any way be rendered, and cannot be made visible on the client. In most cases, use the "rendered" property instead of the "visible" property.Not supported on the following renderkits: org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.core

windowEmbedStyle

String

Yes

Valid Values: window, inlineDocument

Controls the embedded style of launched window. The "window" option will indicate a new browser window. The "inlineDocument" option will indicate an inline popup window. The default value is "window".

windowHeight

int

Yes

the height of the window, if this command is used to launch a window.

windowModalityType

String

Yes

Valid Values: applicationModal, modeless

Controls the modality of the launched Dialog. The default is modeless.